Improvement in machines for rolling, pressing, and gutting tobacco



`having grooves and' the other having tongues. fitting me, uns 24th [my f Maren, 1869.

G. ROBINSON.

g f @uitga tat leLIIoBINso'N, or LOUISVILLE, KENTIIOKY.

11mm Pmt No. 97,703, dazed December 7, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR. ROLLING, PhRESSING, AND CUTTING IOBACCO.

'l'he Schedule referred to m these Letters Iatent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern..-`

Be vitkuown thatAI, G. ROBINSON, of Louisvillaiu the county' of J el'erson, and State of Kentucky, have invented` a new and improved Machine for Rolling,

Pressing, and Cutting .Tobaeeo,`&c.; and I do'liereby declare that theffollowing is a1 full, o1ear,`and exact description' thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use thesalne, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.4 p p My invention has britsohject improvement iu maohines for pressing and cutting tobacco, whereby they l same are made simpler iu construction and more confvenent in arrangement of pa1'ts,.aud provided with an improved arrangement for delivering or guiding the ,pressed tobacco to the cutters; and

` parts, l l

`A and B represent a pair of' pressing-rollers, the one' therein,I but not tilling `the said grooves.

These rollers are arranged in suitable housings, and

provided wit-h suitable driving-gears.

l The tobacco is fed into these grooves. by endlessV belts c, working between dividing walls *1), forming gchaunels about as wide as the grooves.

by hand or otherwise, in suicient quantity.

4In/the said grooves the. said leaves are pressed to To these channels the tobacco-leaves are supplied,

, a' considerable extent, in passingjbetween the said roll,

ers A B.

E represents a. third roller, working together with the roller B, whereby the tobacco is still further pressed in the same way, after which it is removed from the4 grooves by dischargers F, and falls between a pair of eutting-rollers G H, armed with knives I and grooves' K, into which the said knives mesh, and against the shoulders of which they cut the pressed strips of tobacco into plugs, delivering the said plugs below. l

The discharger Fis 'slot-ted to'lit in the grooves between the anges of the roller B, so as to clean saidlroller, and guide the tobacco to the cutter-cylinders G and H.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The fixed partitions D, feedug-belts c, rollers A B E, and the discharger F', slotted to vlit ,in the grooves in theroller B, to guide the tobacco to the cut-.ting-A rolls G and H, all combined, constructed, and. arranged with relation to each other, `as shown and described.

The above specification of my iuventiori signed by Witnesses:

S. J. GHIPLEY, A. L. ROBINSON, 

